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Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

(1) Background: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a syndrome that has fatigue as its major symptom. Evidence suggests that ozone is able to relieve ME/CFS-related fatigue in affected patients. (2) Objective: To evaluate whether differences exist between males and females...

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Autores principales: Chirumbolo, Salvatore, Valdenassi, Luigi, Franzini, Marianno, Pandolfi, Sergio, Ricevuti, Giovanni, Tirelli, Umberto
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8745436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35011914
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11010173
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author Chirumbolo, Salvatore
Valdenassi, Luigi
Franzini, Marianno
Pandolfi, Sergio
Ricevuti, Giovanni
Tirelli, Umberto
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Valdenassi, Luigi
Franzini, Marianno
Pandolfi, Sergio
Ricevuti, Giovanni
Tirelli, Umberto
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description (1) Background: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a syndrome that has fatigue as its major symptom. Evidence suggests that ozone is able to relieve ME/CFS-related fatigue in affected patients. (2) Objective: To evaluate whether differences exist between males and females in ozone therapy outputs in ME/CFS. (3) Methods: In total, 200 patients previously diagnosed with ME/CFS (mean age 33 ± 13 SD years) underwent treatment with oxygen–ozone autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT). Fatigue was investigated via an FSS 7-scoring questionnaire before and following 1 month after treatment. (4) Results: The Mann-Whitney test (MW test) assessed the significance of this difference (H = 13.8041, p = 0.0002), and female patients showed better outcomes than males. This difference was particularly striking in the youngest age cohort (14–29 years), and a KW test resulted in H = 7.1609, p = 0.007 for the Δ = 28.3% (males = 3.8, females = 5.3). (5) Conclusions: When treated with O(2)-O(3)-AHT, females respond better than males.
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spelling pubmed-87454362022-01-11 Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Chirumbolo, Salvatore Valdenassi, Luigi Franzini, Marianno Pandolfi, Sergio Ricevuti, Giovanni Tirelli, Umberto J Clin Med Brief Report (1) Background: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a syndrome that has fatigue as its major symptom. Evidence suggests that ozone is able to relieve ME/CFS-related fatigue in affected patients. (2) Objective: To evaluate whether differences exist between males and females in ozone therapy outputs in ME/CFS. (3) Methods: In total, 200 patients previously diagnosed with ME/CFS (mean age 33 ± 13 SD years) underwent treatment with oxygen–ozone autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT). Fatigue was investigated via an FSS 7-scoring questionnaire before and following 1 month after treatment. (4) Results: The Mann-Whitney test (MW test) assessed the significance of this difference (H = 13.8041, p = 0.0002), and female patients showed better outcomes than males. This difference was particularly striking in the youngest age cohort (14–29 years), and a KW test resulted in H = 7.1609, p = 0.007 for the Δ = 28.3% (males = 3.8, females = 5.3). (5) Conclusions: When treated with O(2)-O(3)-AHT, females respond better than males. MDPI 2021-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8745436/ /pubmed/35011914 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11010173 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Chirumbolo, Salvatore
Valdenassi, Luigi
Franzini, Marianno
Pandolfi, Sergio
Ricevuti, Giovanni
Tirelli, Umberto
Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
title Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
title_full Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
title_fullStr Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
title_full_unstemmed Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
title_short Male vs. Female Differences in Responding to Oxygen–Ozone Autohemotherapy (O(2)-O(3)-AHT) in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
title_sort male vs. female differences in responding to oxygen–ozone autohemotherapy (o(2)-o(3)-aht) in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (me/cfs)
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8745436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35011914
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11010173
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